From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 22:55: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.velosystems.net (cx144844-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.9.137.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1842B37B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (jeeves.velosystems.net [192.168.1.6]) by lucifer.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CCDD72689; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:54:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:54:54 -0800 From: Steve Wingate To: "Donnie Jones" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router setup. Message-Id: <20011207225454.78ad4e14.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20011208050527.27072.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011208050527.27072.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: Velosystems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are articles on ipfw and ipfilter at www.freebsddiary.org, not to mention the handbook at www.freebsd.org. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html Please try to get in the habit of consulting these resources before posting questions to the list (not that I always do). On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:05:27 -0800 (PST) "Donnie Jones" wrote: > Hey all, > > I am in dire need of help, as is probably most who > email this list. :) > > I have researched, read, attempted, and thrown things, > but all of this is to no avail for me to be able to > set up freebsd as a router. > > My setup consists of a 75mhz pentium with 800mb hard > drive, and two ethernet cards, both intel ether > express pro 100's ( fxp0, fxp1 ). > > I've set it up where the ethernet comes from the cable > modem to the first ethernet card, then another cable > from the second ethernet card to my 8-port ethernet > switch. > > >From the ethernet switch the cables are ran their > respective ethernet cards. > > Now, since I haven't been able to accomplish this on > my own, I want to start over anew. If someone could > please email me back with a detailed description of > how to set up the computer using FreeBSD as a router, > preferable using a dhcpd server to set the ip's on the > rest of the network, but it would also be helpful to > know how to set the ip's without dhcpd. > > I hope to use this information to then edit some more > and add some of the trials and tribulations that I've > encountered then post it on the web as a FreeBSD > router howto of sorts. > > Thank you all very much, and I am sorry for the length > of my email. > > Pleading, > > Donnie Jones > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message